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Patent-ed Feb. 18; 1896.

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JOHN M. \V. LONG, OF HAMILTON, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO THE LONG & ALLSTATTER COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

RIDING-CULTIVATOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 554,704, dated February 18, 1896. Application filed November 25, 1895. Serial No. 569,986. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN M. W. LONG, of Hamilton, Butler county, Ohio, have invented certain new and usefullmprovements in Riding-Cultivators, of which the following is a specification.

This invention pertains to riding-cultivators, and relates particularly to a system of mechanism for guiding the cultivator-beams.

My improvement will be readily understood from the following description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a side elevation of illustrating my of the same.

As the implement is of an ordinary character in its general construction, many of the usual adjuncts, in the way of elevating and depressing devices, etc, have been omitted from the drawings.

In the drawings, 1 indicates the usual arched axle of a riding-cultivator; 2, the tongue securedthereto; 3,the wheels 4, the usual draftarch connecting the forward ends of the cultivator-beams with the tongue; 5, the usual cultivator-beams, pivoted at their forward ends to the base of front arch 4 in the usual manner so as to permit'the rear ends of the beams to rise and fall and swing sidewise and also, preferably, so that the distance between the beams may be adjusted as usual; 6, a stretcher extending, as usual, across from beam to beam, and pivoted at its ends to the two beams to accommodate the side swinging of the beams, this structure being arched to pass the corn, and being adjustable in length to, suit changes in adjustment of distance between the cultivator-beams, the distance between the end pivots of the stretcher thus being kept the same as the distance between the vertical pivots at the forward ends of the cultivator-beams; 7, the drivers seat; 8, a footlever pivoted to each cultivator-beam, near its rear end, on a horizontal pivot, and pro- 3' ectin g upwardly in convenient position to be reached by the drivers feet; 9, links cona cultivator, lnvention; and Fig. 2, a plan nected at their rear ends with levers 8 and at their forward ends with the base of front arch 4 at some distance sidewise from the vertical pivots at the forward ends of the cultivatorbeams; 10, the vertical pivots at the forward ends of the cultivator-beams, and 11 the usual cultivator-standards.

In operation the tendency of the beams is to trail in lines directly rearward from their draft-pivots 10. If, by any means, they be swerved from such lines their tendency is to return thereto. If the driver wishes to swerve the beams to the right he presses forward on the right-hand one of levers 8. The effect of this is to urge the right-hand beam to the right and, through the medium of stretcher 6, also the left-hand beam in the same direction. Upon relieving the pressure on the foot-lever the beams will move back into their normal lines of travel. If it be desired to swerve the beams to the left then foot-pressure is applied to the left-hand lever 8. Thus, by pressure of the right or left foot, the beams may be swerved to the right or to the left, and by removing or equalizing the foot-pressure the beams may be allowed to steadily maintain their normal lines of travel. The tongue and the arches form merely the frame of the cultivator and may be of any of the usual and suitable types.

I claim as my invention- In a cultivator, the combination, substantially as set forth, of a wheeled frame, a pair of cultivator-beams having their forward ends connected with said frame by vertical pivots, a stretcher pivoted to the beams to the rear of said pivots, a foot-lever pivoted to each beam in position to be reached by the feet of the driver riding on said frame, and links extending from said levers forwardly to points of attachment to saidframe at a distance sidewise from the vertical pivots uniting the forward ends of said beams to said frame.

JOHN M. W. LONG.

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J. W. SEE, E. A. BELDEN. 

